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Moratorium on freaking out about AI

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It looks like the tide has quickly turned and the AI doomers (who were mostly just in it for personal gain) overplayed their hand and are now being roundly mocked. I've seen a lot more posts and articles dismissing them and advocating sanity in the last 24 hours, after the silly deluge of "extinction" or whatever they were on about. It almost looks like another mini mass psychosis.

> It almost looks like another mini mass psychosis.

Or you are just in denial.

Although I agree that freaking out is not an option anyway.

That seems to be the playbook. Anyone who doesn't think the sky is falling and we all need to surrender power to our betters is a denier (or denialist, whatever that suffix does). I wonder how long that will continue to work.

> we all need to surrender power to our betters

Huh? Who even thinks that?

Power or no power to our betters is mostly inconsequential in comparison to the chance of AI taking the top place on the intelligence podium. Somehow if that is actually coming I don't see how "betters" could do anything about it.

> note: I used GPT-4 to boilerplate the essay with my talking points then heavily edited it. Call it plagarism, I consider it "reducing the amount of time I have to spend writing a formal essay for my bullet points so I can spend that time instead with the visiting friends I have in town". I use compilers every day to cheat on turning mental abstractions into assembly, which is kind of what I consider essays to be, so it's not a huge ethics issue for me but feel free to interpret it differently. I'm perfectly capable of writing an essay from scratch too, it's just, slower.

just give me the bulletpoints

I actually had to write a letter for something today, I wrote some steam of conciousness and then tried to get gpt to coerce it into a passable letter. It captured everything I wrote and turned it into a high school essay, with cliche metaphors and adjectives people pick to sound literary. I asked it to rewrite and played around a bit, then eventually edited my steam of conciousness into something actually coherent and (to me) authentic.

I have made good use of chatgpt, but it's definitely not there on writing, and I agree that bullet points are way more preferable than the aspiring english major prose chatgpt seems to favor.

Nice try GPT.

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